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1949-51_Vol.1J -    Note: 50g

Page: 95
Date: 28.11.49.4-6.12.49.
Location: Sakaltutan
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28/11 Wool - good, washed, Kayseri 5 TL kilo, growers get 4 or 4.5 TL. i(0185 Ali Osman)

4/12 i(0111 Musa Bingl) bought local yam, greatcoat for 60 TL in town

6/12 Muhtar objects that every year they are poor, - more or less in debt. Good crop, low prices.

Ahmet (taxes{collector}) {met him visiting several times} gets 140 TL, pays 40 a month in tax, leaving 100 to live on. (very reliable figure).

k<prices, poverty, salary>


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